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...telephoned the dean of the Juilliard School for advice and soon was taking lessons from Charles Bornstein, a recent graduate. At his summer house on Long Island, New York, Kaplan and Bornstein worked for a month, nine hours a day, on the first movement alone. Kaplan then booked the American Symphony for a private rehearsal. The results were good, so Kaplan kept at it, conducting the piece in public for the first time...
LOWELL LIEBERMANN, 35; Manhattan, Composer "Haunted" as a teen by Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, Liebermann knew he had to set the novel to music one day. Two decades and three Juilliard degrees later, he will see his first opera (of the same title), for which he adapted the text from the 1891 original, premiere next week at the Opera de Monte-Carlo in Monaco. (Princess Caroline, president of the Monaco Spring Arts Festival, encouraged Liebermann's work, and the piece is dedicated to her.) The composer does sense an affinity, in part, with Wilde's portrait...
Melvin Chen, a chemistry tutor in Currier House who studied music at the Juilliard School in New York, has practiced the violin several times with Ptashne and accompanied Ptashne in a performance at the party...
...have students who had studied at Juilliard to people who had done nothing artistically ever," Padilla said...
...self-defense some composers simply write their own hits. Michael Kamen, a Juilliard-trained oboist, founder of the New York Rock & Roll Ensemble and composer for Alvin Ailey and the Joffrey Ballet, wrote the music for the No. 1 songs All for Love from The Three Musketeers and Everything I Do from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, both sung by Bryan Adams. Kamen recalls that he had to fight to get his sinuous, elegant main theme into the movie Don Juan de Marco. "The director [Jeremy Leven] hated the tune," he recalls. Yet when Bryan Adams lent his vocals...